This paper was submitted to the 2001 conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory at the Eastern Economic Association. It was an initial short response to the idea, which has become common amongst Simultaneoust Marxist Economists, that in Marx’s theory, equilibrium or...

One frequently quoted passage from the work of John Maynard Keynes is that "the best way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch the currency." The passage, attributed to Vladimir Illyich Lenin, appears in Keynes' book <em>The Economic Consequences of the Peace</em>, which became an...

This paper presents Isaak Rubin’s History of Economic Thought. After a brief description of his life and work, the paper discusses Karl Marx’s attempts to write a critical history of the political economy and, in connection with this, the paper analyses the meaning of Rubin’s History of...

Russian Abstract:Указатель публикаций историка и политика Н.А. Рожкова (1868-1928) в сибирских периодических изданиях 1910-1917 гг. в годы ссылки. Индекс содержит информацию о...

The political philosophy of pluralism enjoyed great currency in Britain during the early decades of the 20th century, as an alternative to the extreme poles of individualism and collectivism. Positing the existence of multiple types of political allegiances in any society, pluralism questioned...

Inclusivity is perhaps the single most important human need to facilitate and demonstrate fairness for all members in an open and free society. When this principle need is compromised by appearances of unscrupulous self-interested privileged elites to perpetuate a systemic widening disparity...

Professor Homero Cuevas diagnosed that the content of the classic value theory attributed to Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Sraffa was incomplete or inadequately finished, and that such problem was addressed by exploring a Keynesian idea about the economic magnitudes in terms of labor wage. In the...

In 1848, two obscure German philosophers, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published a revolutionary pamphlet called “The Manifesto of the Communist Party.” The Communist Manifesto, destined to become one of the most influential works of political philosophy of all time, began with these...

Léon Walras’s letters show he spent much of his life trying to arouse interest in his ideas and theories. Attempts in his home country, France, though, were even less fruitful than in other places. Nevertheless, there were exceptions and this paper aims to present an outstanding case in the...

The Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) is often proposed as a pre-Soviet popularizer of Marxist economic theories due to its electoral successes in Germany in the decades before World War I. Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM), we examine whether German-language print references...